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Liam Thorp

Johnson may be humiliated, but Sunak looks weaker than ever before

So this is how it all ended.

Boris Johnson, the man who rode to victory on a thumping 80-seat majority in 2019, leaves Parliament in disgrace just three-and-a-half years later, with MPs - many on his own side - rubber stamping a report that officially branded him as a liar.

If Johnson had entered Downing Street thanks to an overwhelming victory, his humiliating defeat in the Commons last night was even more thunderous. 354 MPs backed the Privileges Committee's findings that the former Prime Minister had misled the Commons over lockdown parties in Downing Street - just seven members voted against.

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